Sermon
Works of the Flesh 2 Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams 20th Oct 2024
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So I want to talk to you because one of
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the most difficult challenge every human being faces, but especially
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your generation, is the wax of the flesh, say the
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works of the flesh. The reason why you need to
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understand this is that your flesh is not born again
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and it can never be born again. Tell somebody your flesh.
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It's not born again and it can never be born again.
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So your great test challenge is your flesh. Your flesh
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is more a challenge than the devil, because the devil,
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he will come and turn to and go buy your flesh.
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You live with it. Every day. You sleep with your flesh,
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you wake up with your flesh, You do everything with
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your flesh. So is the great test, challenge and enemy
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you have, the flesh. The flesh is a very stubborn enemy,
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and you need to have knowledge. And when you have knowledge,
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you are better. So I want to give you some keys,
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because when you have keys, you don't knock at the
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door you open, and keys are designed to give you
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access in life. I pray that for the rest of
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your life you will never knock at any doll, that
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you will never be a beggar. But let me need
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you have that the doors shall be open onto you.
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Dos of favor, dose of great opportunity, dose of breakthroughs,
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dose of unlimited access, dose of a women victories. Let
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that be your posson in the land of the living.
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If you believe it, say yes, put your hands together
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and give him praise. Sit down for doo minutes. One
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of the things I want you to understand is that
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this Christian faith or walk is an overcoming. It is
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an overcoming walk is an overcoming. Jelly is for overcomings.
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And tell somebody you are an overcomer. You you are
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an overcomer. Yeah, it's important to understand that it's about
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overcoming your flesh, overcoming the world, overcoming this world, overcoming
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your flesh because there are things that the enemy will
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throw at you twenty four to seven, especially with social media.
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He will come at you with all kinds of things
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to tempt you. Yeah, he will come with suggestions, say voices,
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say suggestions, Say I black voices in my mind say
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I silence suggestions, and the whisperings of whisperers in my mind,
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I pluck them in the name of Jesus. So these
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are things you have to deal with. And it's not
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every site you go to online. It's not everything you watch. Yeah,
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there are things that you should just avoid watching it
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and hearing you just block it off. I was watching
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CNN the other day and I saw something and immediately
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I changed the channel. Tell somebody switch. You must learn
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to switch switching from some things so that it doesn't
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get into your eye gates and register in your subconscious mind.
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Because the subconscious mind controls the consciousness. So if you
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don't deal with the SubCom concious mind, it will command
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your consciousness because everything that enters yourself conscious controls the
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conscious mind. So first John five four, First John five four.
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For everyone born for whatsoever is born of God overcome
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the world. And this is the victory that they overcome,
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that that overcome.
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The world in our faith.
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So hear me. You are an overcomer. It doesn't matter
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what you are struggling with. Potentially you are an overcomer.
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You may not be overcoming right now, but you are
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an overcomer as many as receive Him to them give
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them power to become the sons of God, to be
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what to be whator. So you are in the process.
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So you may not be aw are comer in reality yet,
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but you have the potential to become. So you are
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becoming an overcomer. You are going through the process metamorphosis.
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You are going through the process to become an overcomer.
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Tell somebody you are an overcomer. Yeah, don't let the
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devil or anybody wish for to you that you are
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a failure. Sometimes you can miss it so many times
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that the devil will tell you that you are a failure.
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But you are no failure. You are an overcomer. Say
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I'm an overcomer. Say I am more than a conqueror.
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The Bible say, greater see that is in you than
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he that is in the world. Are you hearing me,
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somebody say I hear you. So remember that this work,
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this work is for overcomers, and you are a potential overcomer.
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That's who you are. It doesn't matter how many times
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you have falling. You can rise again, the Bible says
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the righteous for lets seven times, and seven times it
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rises up again. The Bible said the loss, I deliver
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you from six trouble. And yeah, on the seven no
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evils will touch you. The Bible said, my enemy rejoined
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not to me, for when I fall, I will rise again.
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Tell somebody, rise again, right, yes, sir, rise again. So
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let's let's look at the works of the flesh. The
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next week. We want to have question and answers. We
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want to discuss the various works of the flesh, and
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we want to open it up, talk about it, discuss
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it and question and answer so that when we are
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through with the works of the flesh, we know that
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we all understand what the Bible is saying. So let's
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begin our journey amplify translation. Let's look at Galicians five
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nineteen to twenty one.
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Now, the practices of the sameful nature are clearly evident.
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They are sexual immorality.
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We discuss it. I don't want to go into details today.
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Will find out next week. What are sexual immorality. We'll
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talk about that. It's not just masturbating with annoyting oil
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or zoomi zuomi.
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Or in kutu.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, so many things on. It's so many things.
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So and the thing is, the thing is a lot
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of people don't even understand what sexual immorality is, but
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it's there. And you see, seeing everybody says saying gives
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the devil a legal ground to afflict you, to oppress you,
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to exact on you, to harass you, to torment you.
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That is what saying does. Scene opens you up. The
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Bible says he that breaks the hedge, a snake will
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bite him. And the Bible said Philippia efficients for twenty
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seven he said, neither give the devil a foothold. Scene
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gives the devil a foothole. And for the devil, you
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never give him a foothole, because any foothold you give him,
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he will take more. If you give him one inch,
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you will take a thousand inches. That's how wicked it is.
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So he always finds a way to tempt you, so
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that you will give him a foothold. Then he will enter.
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When you are going to sleep in the night and
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you open your door, every kind of thing will enter,
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from mosquito to cocordeny, to love for you, everything will
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enter quackway. But how did the quackway enter? You open
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the door. So Scene opens the door. So if you
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don't want quackway and cocordene alone to enter your life
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and trouble, you shut the door. Tell somebody shut it off,
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Tell somebody shut it down. Yeah, tells somebody. Don't go
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to that side. Don't go there, don't go there. That's
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what what disengage. Disengage, that's what disconnect. Disconnect. Go ahead.
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Now the practices of the sameful nature are clearly evident.
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They are sexual, immorality, impurity, sensuality, impurity, sensuality, Go ahead.
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Total irresponsibility to.
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That irresponse, you don't care. You are an orang h
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and Luciferian and I'm Salon taught that irresponsibility. You don't care.
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You break all the rules and do whatever you please.
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There are implications, there are consequences. Now, God will forgive you,
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but you have to deal with your consequence. If you
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go and sleep with the sister and you come and confess,
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you'll be forgiving. God will forgive you. But three months
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after the sister will come and say.
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I'm pregnant.
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Hey, you are what? How you've you've missed your period? How?
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How?
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Then she'll say, you are saying how that thing you
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did the other day, I'm pregnant? You are what pregnant?
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It's not you need that thing is not even five
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minutes away. It's less than five minutes. Yeah, he's less
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than five minutes seconds, and she's pregnant. She can't go
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to school. She wants to abort it, and a lot
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of people have tried to do abortion and they die.
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So whenever you cross that, lind On a bought because abortion,
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you could die. You could lose your life and not
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that only. But abortion is also meta, so you're sharing
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innocent blood. So child's blood will be crying against you.
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And you don't want to go there. Tell someone you
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don't go there, don't go there, go ahead.
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Lack of self control.
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Lack of self control. Christianity is self control. It's not
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everything you see that you eat. Don't just eat anything
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on Yeah, it's not everything you eat, and it's not
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everything you desire. It's not everything your eyes see, nor
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you want it. There are consequences. Don't just want anything
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because you don't know what you are wanting. You don't
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know what you are designed for. Yeah, there are beautiful
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women and handsome men who are snakes. They'll bite you. Yeah,
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you see them nice like that in church. You don't
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know what is in them some of them. There are
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cobras in them, quack away in them, qua their next village. Yeah, yes, sir,
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go ahead.
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Idolatry, sorcery, sorcery, hostility, Uh, strive, strive, Jealousy, jealousy.
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That is what made Kane kill his brother ebn Ab
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Kine kill his brother out of jealousy. There is jealousy
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in the church. Turn to somebody and say, are you
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among the jealous ones. It was jealousy that led Joseph
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brothers to cast him to the pit, send him into
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sleepy jealousy. Whyhead fit of anger? Anger? There are some
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of you When you are angry. God has to come
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down from heaven. Because if God doesn't come out, you've
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finished the whole family. By the time your anger comes down,
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the whole building and the whole house is broken down.
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Uh huh. We have to call fire. Seven is to
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come and quench your fire. Your anger is fire. Go ahead.
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This views essenti faction that promotes heressies, envy, drunkness, behavior
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and other things like this.
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I warn you beforehand, just as I did.
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Previous, Yes, sir, that those who practice that things will
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not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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How many of you want to go to heaven? If
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you practice this thing, you won't go to heavenle Yeah,
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you lose your salvation. You can't say you are believer,
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born again, a child of God and you practice this thing.
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Practice means you keep doing it over and over and
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over again. You are a practitioner of sin like like
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you have americal practitioner. You you're practicing. Yeah, you are
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PhD insane masters insine, you are practicing it. It's not
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that you get tempted like once in a while. But
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as for you, you have PhD, no conscience, no conviction.
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You seen, You're seen with an attitude and with an audacity. Hey,
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look at First Corinthians six nine to ten. First Coriunciance,
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Chapter six, verst. Nine to ten. Do you not know
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that they're all righteous? Will not inherit or have any share?
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So listen to the what makes you all righteous? Right?
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Do not be neither the sessions don't make any When
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he said, do not be deceived, miss make no mistakes.
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It is what it is. Tell somebody it is what
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it is right.
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Do not be deceived neither the sexuality mora, nor idolatous,
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nor daughters, yes, sir, nor perversely imfeminine.
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Uh huh, no homoxionals.
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The word is not your Bible. Don't want tell somebody
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that Papa said, though, is a bible that said that.
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The Bible says, tell somebody the Bible says, So don't
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go and quote me, Papa said, the Bible says. And
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I have no say by what the Bible says. That's
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it northeast, nor that greedy. I tell somebody, are you
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a thief? Are you greedy? Go ahead? No drunkards, lankers, hey,
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go ahead.
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Nor reviless?
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Uh huh?
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Whose words are used as weapons to abuse, to insult?
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Are you an abuser? Do you insult? You use lander, humiliates, intimidates,
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intimidates or slanderless? Uh huh?
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Will inherit or have any shape in the Kingdom of God.
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So if you practice any of these things, you will
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not make heaven. And I think I have a responsibility
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to make it aware of make it known to you,
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make you aware of this thing. So next week we
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will break it down. We will take about two or
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three of particular suggests there and find out what is it,
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dissect the whole thing, h question and answers, so that
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we are all clear about water works of the flesh
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is because you see the Bible saying my people are
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destroyed for lack of knowledge, and you see the maintenance
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of ignorance is the advantage of your enemy. Yeah, the
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enemy wants to keep us ignorant so he can have
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an advantage over us. The Bible says, we are not
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ignorant of his devices. Less he gains advantage over us.
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I think his second CURREENTENTANCEE to eleven or so check it. Yeah,
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we are not ignorant of his devices, less he gains
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advantage over us. He wants to have an advantage over you,
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and the only way he gains advantage over us is
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by being ignorant of his devices. Look at this. Let's Saturn.
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Let's say time you get an advantage our of us,
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for we are not ignorant of his devices. So when
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you are ignorant of his devices or his skimmings or methodology,
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what happens He has an advantage over you. Today, Let
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any advantage Satan has over us in the name of Jesus,
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being all and on and on put chans that say
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I know, I know, I know, we are nor any
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advantage set than us over us.
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In the name of Jesus, we are knowledge. Say yes,
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sit down for two minutes, See down for two minutes. Amen,
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look at look at look at Revelation three five. Revelation
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three five.
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He who overcomes the world through believing that Jesus is
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the Son of God, will accordingly be dressed in white clothing.
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And I will never blot out his name from the
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book of life.
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You see, So what happened if you don't overcome the
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works of the flesh?
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What happened?
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Yes, he said, he said, I would never blot out
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the names of those who overcome from the book of life.
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That means, if you don't overcome the works of the flesh,
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your name can be blotted out from the Book of life.
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It's a very scary thing. It's very scary. So you
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cannot practice the works of the flesh. You must have
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knowledge of the works of the flesh. Some of you,
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you go to all kinds of sights. You lock yourself
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in the room. Your mother or your father is knocking
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at the door, and you would open the door because
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you are far away, far away in some side, visiting
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some places, and your father and mother's going foot. This
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dready coming in. He's a mom, I'm coming, I'm coming.
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You are lost. You ain't cloud now in the clouds
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of some sights. Hey, hey, there's somebody, disengage, disconnect terms,
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somebody flee, say break loose, and demon Jesus. Amen, my
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message is over for today. Next week, we are going
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to break it down. Tell somebody, break it down. Break
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it down, yeah, question and answers. Instead of throwing scriptures
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at you, we want to dissect, analyze. We want to
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look at the pretext and the protext to understand the
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context of the text. Say I hear you. Let us pray.
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If you are here you are not sure your name
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is written in the Book of Life, I want to
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pray for you. If you are not sure your name
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is written in the Book of Life and you want
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your written in the Book of Life, I want to
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pray for you every heads, by every eye cloth, lift
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top your hands and say, Papa, I'm not sure my
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name is written in the Book of Life. How will
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be delighted and honored to pray for you. If you
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are not sure that your name is written in the
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Book of Life, let me pray for you right now
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by lifting your right hand. Wherever you are. It's important
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you need your name written in the Book of Life.
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Or you say your mother can't do it for you,
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your father can't do it for you, you do it yourself.
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Salvation is an individual matter. It's between you and God,
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not between you and your father and your mother. That's
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what salvasion is. If your hand is lifted up, please
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come to me. Let us pray every heads by, every
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eye close. If your hand is lifted up, please come.
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Let me pray with you. Come, please come. It is
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between you and God. When I got born again, I
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started praying tongues and things. My father I had issues
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with it. He didn't want me to go to the
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church that I was going to. He was an Anglican.
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He said everything. But I knew that, you know, salvation
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is an individual matter, so I will not dishonor him
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or disrespect him. I honored him, but I knew that
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I have to make the decision on my own because
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it was about my salvation. I also want to pray
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for those I want to pray for those who are
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struggling with some things. You are struggling with something. I
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don't want to know what it is. It's not my business.
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It's between you and God. Neither is it the business
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of you and anybody but you. And you know you
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are struggling with something and you need the Holy Spirit
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to give you strength, to give you power. Let me
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tell you something overcoming temptation and the devil is not
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the matter of discipline of self will is the power
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of the Holy Spirit. Before Peter had the Holy Spirit,
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it denied Christ. But when the Holy Spirit came upon him,
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he had power to stand for Jesus and he was
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not afraid. So if you are dealing with anything, I
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don't want you to tell me what it is. You
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don't have to tell anybody. Come forward and let's pray
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and say, Papa, pray for me. I need grice and
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I need strength to conquer and overcome some things, whatever
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they are. You don't have to tell anybody. Just come,
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let's pray. Just come as you are, Let's pray. Come,
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let's pray. Come just as you are. God understands where
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you are, He understands what you are dealing with. He
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can help you. He can give you the strength and
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the power to overcome. He can make you a master.
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Go ahead, sing it. I want you to start talking
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to God before we pray. Lift of your hands. Everybody
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else we're praying to you.
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And breathing.
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I get to you, lifting up, lifted up with all
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di nothing. Do won't buck anything, Give it up to Jesus.
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Call did nothing, high siren, I sir.
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To you everything I give hide here hi seld and
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not there all nothing, nothing all.
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Nothing she had seren lo.
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You gre see Amen, lift up your hands. Let us pray.
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Everybody say, Oh God, I recognize that insane did my
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mother conceive me? And that there is no good in me?
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You are the only good one Today I saved Jesus.
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I recognize Jesus as Lord and as the savior of mankind.
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Lord Jesus, I give you my life. Come into my heart,
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baptize me with the Holy Spirit. Give me power to
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overcome sin and temptation. Make me a master and an overcomer.
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Write my name in the Book of Life. Help me
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to practice righteousness, truth and holiness and not sin. In
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the name of Jesus. Now let me pray for a father.
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Behold your sons and daughters. They have come to you.
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Let everyone's name be written in the Book of Life.
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And give everyone the power to overcome the works of
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the flesh. Give them power to overcome sin, power to
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overcome the devil, power to overcome temptation. And let them
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disconnect and disengage from any yoke of bondage. Let them
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break loose and free from soul times from that which
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has tied them up. Let them be lose and set
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free and delivered and live a life. Please in your side,
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I pray that their names will never be taken from
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the Book of Life, but that their names will stay
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and remain in the Book of Life until the day
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of the Lord Jesus. I thank you in the name
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of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen. So look
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at me, those of you who came forward to receive Christ.
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We are going to work with you to understand what
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you've done. Then those of you came forward to be
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prayed for about whatever you are struggling with and dealing with.
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Everybody is dealing with something. Everybody struggles with something. We
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all have things we struggle about. I like vanilla ice
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cream a lot, but I know that when I eat
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vanilla ice cream, it doesn't go down well with me,
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so I refuse to eat vanilla ice cream. Sometimes I
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go to have lunch and they bring vanilla ice cream
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and all kinds of cookies for desired and I say,
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I bang you in the name of Jesus, pay for
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them for your God true love. And I don't take it,
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even though I have strong desire for it. I know
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that if I touch vanilla ice cream, it doesn't go
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down well with me. It gives me primposed and all
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kinds of things, and I know it, so I don't
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touch it.
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Today.
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I pray that God will give you power to conquer
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and overcome anything you love and you like. But it's
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not good for you. Sin is not good for you.
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Sin is not good for you. You may see a
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beautiful chick and you like the chick, eh, but it's
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not good for you. You see a beautiful, handsome young
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man and you like him, You like the way he smells,
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the way he carries himself. But it's not good for you.
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It will hurt you. It will hurt you eventually. So
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the Lord gives you grace to be an overcomer in life.
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May you conquer and overcome to the day of Jesus Christ,
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May you be an overcomer, and may your name stay
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in the book of life. Next week we are going
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to study and look at the various works of the
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flesh and teach you how you can conquer and overcome them.
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The best way before even next week is to start
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disengaging and disconnected. Get off some side, get some things
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off your phone. Don't go to some places. Amen.